First thing you need to do is install and activate the Timeline Express plugin. Upon activation, you need to visit Timeline Express > Add New Announcement to add your first announcement or event. Simply provide a title for the announcement or event, then select color, date and icon. Timeline express comes with beautiful Font Awesome icon font built-in. Afterwards, you can provide an announcement image which will be used as the banner. This image should be at least 650px wide or larger. Below you will find the post editor where you can enter further details about the announcement and you can add images and videos as well. Publish it when you are done and repeat the process to add a few more announcements.

Now, it is time to display them on your website after you have created announcements. Simply create a new page in WordPress and give it a suitable title. Add the shortcode [timeline-express] in the post editor and click on the publish button. You can now view the page with timeline in action. For further details about the tutorial, visit at Add Beautiful Event Timeline in WordPress.

First thing you need to do is install and activate the WP JV Post Reading Groups and upon activation go to Settings > Reading to create reading groups. Start by entering a name for your reading group and then click on “Add new reading group” button. Once you are satisfied, it is time to add users into your reading groups. Go to the Users page in your WordPress admin area and edit the user you want to add to a group. You will find the WP JV Reading Groups section towards the bottom of the screen. Check the box next to the user group where you want to add this user and you can add a user into multiple groups. Click on update user button when you are done.

Now that you have setup your users group, take a how to privately share posts with a specific user group. Create a new post or editing an existing one and you will notice the new WP JV Reading groups meta box. Click the checkbox next to the group name you want to share the post with. Then, under the Publish meta box click on the Edit link next to Visibility, and set your post to private. And that’s all.

First thing you need to do is install and activate the Quick and Easy FAQs plugin. Upon installation, the plugin will add a new FAQs section in your WordPress admin menu. You will need to visit FAQs > Add New to add your first frequently asked question. The FAQ editor looks very much like post editor. Add the question in the title field and answer in the post edit area. On your right hand column, you will notice the FAQ Groups box. These groups are like categories in WordPress posts. You can use groups to sort questions into topics or sections. Once you are done, click on the publish button, and repeat the process for all other frequently asked questions you want to add. After you have a few FAQs, it is time to display them on your website.

Development for WordPress 4.4 started after the release of WordPress 4.3 and it is expected to be released during the second week of December 2015. So here are the features that comes with WordPress 4.4.

Twenty Sixteen – The New Default WordPress Theme

Twenty Sixteen features the traditional blog layout with a sidebar and content area. The design focuses on readability and elegant display on all devices. It comes with five color schemes Default, Dark, Grey, Red, and Yellow and supports custom headers, and has two menu locations one for site navigation and other social links.

Responsive Images Out of the Box

WordPress will now provide a better solution to address this problem by showing responsive images out of the box. This is done by using srcset attribute that allows client’s browsers to display an image based on device capabilities.

Better Embeds

WordPress 4.4 comes with the possibility for you to add embeds from any site that supports oEmbed and includes all WordPress sites. If you add a plain URL in your post from another WordPress site, then it will automatically embed.

Developer Features

WordPress REST API (Phase 1)—allows WordPress developers to create new APIs or work on the existing WordPress APIs to in their own applications.

Taxonomy Term Meta Data—terms in taxonomies (like categories and tags) can now have meta data associated with them.

If you use ManageWP, you may have noticed a new dashboard design that’s because the company released Orion, a completely redesigned dashboard for managing sites. Actions performed in one dashboard are mirrored to the other where users can switch between the two with the click of a button. Websites can be assigned to clients while tags can describe whether a site is in development or live. Each site can up to five tags and one client. Unlike the native dashboard, Orion uses Angular.js which allows users to run asynchronous calls. One distinct difference between both dashboards is the way backups are generated. ManageWP backups and Orions backups are completely different from each other.